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. . it's( 4 ,-t.t'iilinAelree.—(Applanse.)—He thin moved the ite!oliitiotr, which was seconded by the Rev. 3. "Lownshend, and carried unanimously. WEYMoUtH, in nerving the third riesoin tion, 'set forth the difficuities nucler which those rgood meh had laboured who formerly entleavoured - to'thake the truths of the Rible known to Mawkind in tzencral, and the opposition which they had to ':encounter down to tire reign of Queer; Elizabeth. would they have exulted who sealed the truth of the ::7"criptures with t ceir blooth, could they have "known the in ti,at very capital %vhere they were pet secured a society would one day he iOrmed, like that which was now established, for promulgating a kirowleNe of ti!e Bible moved a Resnin dtclaratory of the important benefits con let red on mankind by the attempt made to diffuse a knowledge of the Scriptures. Dr. DoN•.Holt seconded the tuot!on, which was carrivd ue inimously. Mr. J. MACKENZIF, in moving a Rcinottom, 3Vhich censured " as equally intrusive and un wortl.y every effort authoritatively to impose any expositions of the Scriptures, of which every one had a - ight to examine, read, mark, and inwardly • - digest," contended, that the grand point to which • their attention should that day be directed was the great circulation which had been given to the Holy Scriptures through the Reformation. He showed that St. Paul and our blessed Sa viour himself had recommended an examination of the • Scriptures. It was fit that men by readinz the Bible themselves should know what they believed, that their faith should not be like that of the Ca tholic Collier, who, when interrogated on this subject, gave the answers which foliose to the questions put to him : Q. What do you believe ?—A. I believe what the Church believes. R. What (oes the Church believe ?—A. The Church believes what I believe. Q. And what do yon both believe ?—A. Why • we both believe alike.—(A Laugh.) • Mr. G. MiEas seconded the Resolution, and it vas carried unanimously. 1)r. RirPots had thought it would not be amiss to meet the question which might be asked : " How did it happen that they had - not belore cele brated that event, than which none could be more glorious, with the exception of the Advent of our Saviour He would answer this by mentioning, that when the possession of civil and seligions liberty among us had been celebrated, they had, in fact, celebrated the principles of the Reforma tion. He saw the Reformation commemorated •in 1788, when the centenary of the Revolution teas celebrated, and he had thought the Sallie cha racter belonged to the public rejoicings of the Ist ofAugust, and other days which he mentioned. The J.:big he described to be the true friend of the Iteforntation, as. he had been the best of earthly Eings. lie had ever been c.o•eful to maintain his `Coronation oath. Blessed be God that he had olone so, and his had ':ern the paten's, : wish, that a day might arrive wlems tkre should be .tro child in the whit extent of his dominions woo could not read his Bible." Ile moved a Resolu tion, setting forth that the experience of Europe, irons the third to the sixteenth centuries, had _shOwn that the principles of the Reformation were as important in practice as they were theoretically correct ; and that many of the evils which the world during that long period had had to mourn, night he traced to a violation of those principles. Mr. Cu aims seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The Rev. Mr. Boweas moved a Resolution de scriptive of the evils which had flowed from the absence of the principles of the Reformation. In the speech with which he prefaced it, he elo quently set fortis the arts by which the minds of • mess had been enthralled by the priests of other times, and forcibly descanted on the lung men t a l night which had followed. Ile dwelt with pecu liar animation on the crusades which had been undertaken, in which that cross which should have been the- emblem of peace, because the standard Of war, and the signal for desolation. Instead of prosing the olive-branch of peace, held out by mercy to a perishing world, it had called forth the sword and torch of war, and had consigned millious to death. lie adverted to the blessings which had flowed front the Re formatiou. Of that Reformation, our own im mortal ‘Vickliffe . bad been the morning star ; hut his death had prevented the accomplishment of the great work, till the flame which warmed the breast o f L u ther, in 1517, burst fortis and scattered the . darkness which had rested on Europe fur so many, ceoturies. Religious freedom was the glorious snit, and no fear could now be entertained of the return of the days of persecution, slit Ided as our libel ties were, under the broad shield of the House of Hanover. The resolution was seconded and agreed. to. Mr. J. WILKES took a retrospective view of the persecutions to which the Christian world had been exposed. He described the exhunwion of and the martyrdom of Jerome and Huss, both of whom, in the midst of the flames to. which they.were consigned, had sung the praises of the Supreme Being, and believed that a day would arrive when the light of his word should be permitted to shine on the world. He moved the following Resolution That, afflicted at the retrospect of evils so mach to he deplored, this Meeting delight to trace even those gleams of moral light which in the fourteenth century partially, dissi pated a gloom so oppress:ye and profound; and that the inemorieS of Wicki hi, of Jerdme, and Huss, and of the Waldenses, are enshrined within their hearts." Mr. D. BEvAN seconded the motion. lie ob served they were now like travellers looking hack no the point from which they had started. They had left darkness and superstition, and it was nosy their happiness to see lowal light shed On t h e world. It had be l en said no fear could now be en tertained of the; return of the days of Persecution. J!e trusted such, danger was very remote, but should it be the will of God that such a time should again be known, they could only hope to triumph over their enemies by maintaining the pribciples of the Reformation. The Resolution was carried. It was here - int hooted that the Duke of Sussex vished the4utore Speakers to be very brief. Mr. Cox read part of a letter from Dr. tichwnbe,' in illustrvion of the principles wbich •animated those with whom tips meeting had originated. The letter also gavif'some fiemint of the ceiebra , tine of the tri-centenary Jubilee in Germany. • Dr. NEwMAN congratulated the Meeting on the protection they enjoyed under the House of Brunswick, and reminded the Assembly that they owed their present Chairman to the Reformation. He wished to know Whether they would wish the principles of the Reformation to stand still ; to gn back wards or to go 'forward ? Could they stand still while so Much remained to he done—while Spain, Portugal, and Turkey, remained strangers to the 1)1651 . 11gs we derived from the Reformatiou ? If they decided to stand still, who Would guarantee to them that his H , Jiness the Pope would stand still, and that the' Ministers of the Inquisition would stand still ? Won hi Luther under such circum stanceshave bade them stand still ? Should they oo back then ? lie wished them to. see what must follow such a Resolution, and to do this, he begged to remind them of what had occurred in the reign . of Edward VI. when an insurrection broke out in Devonshire, in opposition to the prinCiples of the Reformation. A Crucifix • was then carried be fore the insurgents•, and their demands were com prehended in 13 articles. The tenth of these demanded " that the Scriptures, in the English language, and the books in explanation of them, should be destroyed, or the priests would no longer, Abe able tosonfound the heretics." This conduct they must imitate if they determined up on going back ; he therefore exhorted them to press forward as they wished " glory to God in the highest, peace on earth—good. will to men." He moved a Resolution declaring it to be the ob ject of that Meeting to celebrate the Reformation of 1317. ,Mr. AloßtAn4 seconded the Resolution, which w as carried.. The Rev. Di'. STYLES complimented the pre 'et:thug speakers, and the Royal Chairinati, for the part they had taken on this occasion. He spewed how greatly the circulation of the Bible had been facilitated by the art of printing, which he regarned as a beam front the eternal mind. The art of Its inting, however, was nothing without the riglit of printing, and this it had been the object of Papal power to put down. Before the art of printing was known, the price of a copy of the Holy Scriptures was 500 crowns. Shortly after that invention, the price was reduced to 60 crowns ; but now, blessed be God ! they might be so cheaply obtained that no poor man need be without one, to console him in times the most disastrous and melancholy. He hoped unlimited toleration would exist in this country. Every man had a right to think for himself, and no power could prevent him front doing so ; but, thank God, through . the principles of the British Constitution, in. England they pos. si•ssed the right of thinking aloud. .They owed their thanks to the Ahniglity—for that the tree of liberty—he did not mean the tree of revolution-- had been permitted to grow. so high as it had grown in this country. That tree, the root of which had been nourished by their fathers' blood, had so flourished, that they might now sit down tinder it to enjoy its shade. He concluded a very animated speech b y moving the following Reso- Rohm : " That the Reformation havinz promoted the recog.nilion of the great principles which this sleeting maintain, has (-tided by the art of printing), emancipated any mations from such soperstitions ant tyranny—has' hestoWe'd net the people constitutional freedom, and •restored to magistrates lawful authority—has burst asunder the fetters which en 'chained the human mind—has ameliorated the destiny, even of those countries which IMve not vet yielded to its influence --and has contributed to that improvement in social happi ness at which this Meeting can rejoice;—although society maw not yet have attained that state which piety must desire, and philanthropy approve." The Rev. ALEXANDER FLETCDER begged to in troduce to the Meeting the Reim mation under the figure of a tree. It had first displayed its ver dant beauty in the plains of Saxony: when it was planted there he could not tell perhaps it was at the birth of our Saviour, when Angels . sung " Glory to God in the highest.• Peace on.earth, and' good will to men." Thefruits of the tree the people of this country had for 3 centuries enjoyed; clusters of them were now before him in the Resolu y tion—the were, " Emancipation front Supersti tion," " Constitutional' Freedom," the Resto ration of the Lawful Authority of Magistrates," and " the liberation of the human mind from the darkness of the Aristotelian philosophy." He eu logized the House of Brunswick for their attach ment to the plinciples. of the Reformation, tv,hich he described to be the brightest gem in the Sove reign's diadem. The Resolution was carried. The Rev. Jos. lvEmY deicribed the conduct of Melancthon, Zoinglins, Calvin, and Luther, and slimed the world had derived the most im portant benefice from their labours. To them he ascribed that mental emancipation which had taken . place since a Britkh Monarch had been compelled to walk bare-footed to the tomb of that base ecclesiastic, Thomas A"i3ecket. la speak ing. of the persecutioo which Luther had expe rienced, he applandvd the resolution lie . had dis ol.iyed, when, haying appealed to the General Council, his frieudi advised him not to goto,the Diet of Worms, but,he aiistVered--" If there wore ai many (lords as ‘vortr.s, still would I go." The Pope issued a bull against him, but Dither burnt the hull in the presetice.of A vast concourse of people. With it lie burnt every thing that could in any way scent to attach him to the Church of Rome, regardless of the displeasure of the Pope. He who had not feared the roaring of a bull, was not to he disinhyed by the braying of an ass. The liberality cif Luther he admired.- Once, when his disciples were pulling down some lionntn Catholic idols, he went to them and told them they were very wrong. - Let us," said he, " preach so, as to enlighten their miods . ,.and they will pull down these thim2s themselves." This principle, lie trusted, would ever be acted upOn. In the ,words of the immor tal Selden, he would say he desired. " above all things liberty—civil iiberty-,—religions liberty— that liberty of the heart w-;qich had been purchased by a Saviour's blood." He moved, "'flint without conferring' any excessive praise On Luther, INlelanctlzon, 2niuglius, Cal vi u, and the band of, brethren who originated and pronzoted this beneficent event,'alkil with out applauding all their conduct, or all the doctrines which they taught, ilia Dlvetittr must 'regard them as great . qmong the greatest of manikizid—Whist rc6llect With astonishment and adtuiration their .tahints-, their ritotrY; their zeal; and must recommend to their children, and their childoett's chit.; dren, an imitation of their dauntless courage, their steady . , per; verAree, and that itiilniiinaoh /e 'obedience to the dic fates of their conicienees, which they, nuhly iiisphiyect." Mr. FR Elt a seconded the motion, which was cartie•d. rive other Resolutions, applauding the princi- Plea of the Reformation, and deprecating religions intolerance, Were 'Moved by Mr. Davis, of the Common Council, and seconded by the Rev. J. Townsend, Who complained of the harshness with which Protestuott are'ireated in foreign countries, and expressed a hope that a Society would be formed, to let Catholic Governments know, that it Was expected Protestants should be tolerated in their dominions as Catholics were in England. The Resolutions Were put and carried. The ReN: ATTHSW WILF,.uS pro'poscd thanks to the Duke of Sussex, in - a long eccentric speech. lie warmly eulogized the [louse of Brunswick, for their attachdient to the principles of the Re formation, and their aversion to intolerance. Ile had - not forgotten that a. Duke of Luoenhourg was among the first Reformers, who signed the memorable protest at Spires, against the several enactments which had there been made, and per haps the Mt eting did oot know that from hit'their Chairman was descended. His present Ma jesty was a friend to religious liberty. The King's joiner was a Methodist prvacher, and his body coachmalt was a rank Methodist. The person last alluded to was old Daddy Saunders. It was known to the King that his coachman was a Methodist, but that never caused him to get one Inikind word and his Majesty, when the old man had retired,' if he met hint, never failed to stop hii carriage to say, " Saunders; how do you do ?" 'He eomPli mented the Chairman on the anxiety he had dis played to promote the cause of Religious Liberty; and in conclusion, on proposing the vote of thanks, called on the coMpany not. Merely to lift up their hands, but to rise. This call was instantly obeyed, and the Reso lution %vas carried with loud acclamations. The Duke of SussEx returne;l thanks. In rising, said his Royal Highness,' to thank you for this compliment, I feel that it was one less clue to me than to yourselves. I have always thonght it my duty to attend every Meeting where I believed that the welfare of this country might be pro moted. There was, indeed, .a sort 'of . . bus-1 know '6 4 ot . how I heard - it, but there was a sort of buz, - that a Meeting - like this was not conducive fo hit interests of the Church. 13nt'the prOceetl ings of this day will extinguish such unfounded apprehensions. I knew they would, and I came here determined to try the result. When it was first proposed to me to take the Chair of this As sembly;l asked to be informed of the Resolutions which were intended to be submitted to its consi deration. That I thou . ght it tight to do, because when a MeMber of the Royal Family attends a .public Meeting, his preSenee gives it a certain sanction, and he should see that was about to be clone before he would take upon himself Such a reFponsibility. 1 therefore Made the inquiry, and finding none prepared,. 1 drew np the outline of those Resolutions, which you have Adopted with such on3nioil!y. The great prioeipk of civil and religious libertywhich they inculcate is purely that of the RefotrOrioti. it is use principle which called the present Fatniiy to the throne of these realms, and which gives to rile King of England the title of the Sc:ereign of a nee lieu ple—a title far more glorious than that of any Em peror, or Ant ocrat whatever.-- (Applause.)—Wete he the king of slaves, how would his dignity.be de meaned ! And arc we not to have the liberty of the press ? Arc we to he deprived of that, the only lasting foundatioa both of our civil anti religious liberty ? I for one do say, that the security of that liberty is essential to the security of the House of lirunswick.—(Applause.)—They are as much bound to preserve that liberty as they are to 'observe any of those conditions upon which they hold the throne of these realms. . Neither the - liberty of conscience or the liberty of the press is to be lightly I, , olated because a few indi viduals are displeased. It any inroads are sup posed to be made by licentiousness upon the li berty of the press, it is not these few individuals who ought to be the judges of the question. Let the public decide it ; I take my stand upon the Opinion of the Public; for we have seen that in more than in one instance they decided rightly. Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you for the hand some manner in which you have approved this Resolution. '" ['l'his speech was followed by loud and lcirg con t ":►eels of. applause ] Other Resolutions for printing the proceedings ►►nd subscribing, to defray.the.expenses were the' passed, as also a vote of thanks to the Rev. P.A. Cox, after which the Meeting broke up. The 'room was extremely crowded. Several ladies were present. At a time when the whole ..kingdom is under going a survey of the duties on Houses and Win dows,:the following brief sketch of the operation . of , those•duties might not he unacceptable, kind' might possibly. tend to remove some erroneous opinions :-.4The Act of the 48 Geo. 3, cap. 55, enacts,, that all windows or lights, however c0n.... strutted, in all parts of dwelling-houses, as' wek internal as external, and in all household offices,' whether adjoining •the -house or •nor, sltall be charged to the ditties. And every dwelling- hotise; ithoe the value.of 51; per annum . , shaft he charged an inhabited (loose duly, accordiog to the full-an nual value, or .rank tent of the sdnie, in which animal value .or rent are to he included bold awl ,other offices, stables, 'coach-houses, courts, gardens, and pleasure-gronods, within one ,acre, •which might be ,occupied therewith.—lt might also be some satisfaction to the public to know, Iliac the additional stuns to be coll. , !ed by putting the above -Act in Joffe, will he paid into Isis Majesty's I'l:v.:lover -whole and nutottel,led, and that the surveyors of taxes sue not entitled, as formerly,. •to airy . part of the duties so col lected. Tire Original Blirglicr Congregation in Pettit, agree.nbly t4i rppninlmeitt of the Associate Syno,!, 'observed last Thursday .as is day , of l'hank . sgiving, in commentotation of the beginning-or the clarions era of Reformation , front Popery in Germany,' of which this -period. - commerices • the t'onrth n tenary. , Appropriate discourses were lielivered.on the occasion by the Rev. IVm. TAYLOR, their pastor, from Revelations xl. 12. tilOckuS;q.stri6bt. ' A a InqUisiti'an vas taken yesterday, hef.te Mr. STIRLI NG`; the Colonel, at the Committet.'- Room, St. 14 7 ,wkliouse, On the body seph Stockton, a cabinet-maker, who put a lie_ , tiOd to hiS existence by shooting hintself through the head on Siturday last. - It appeared,fro m the. eViOnce of Mr. •Francia Burke, .of Nos. 17 and 13, George-strei Bloorna: bury, that . the deceased came to lodge at leis house on the Mandaylreceding his death. Ali% Burke thought him very rtional, and perfectly composed in his mind ; during the time. Go Si, tut I.y the deccoetl did' lint leave his bed until near one o'clock ; lie lett the lir,ccse about two, and returned ho me a b out five o'clock ; he was quite lobe.. i - lies went up to h s chamber, and fighted a candle ; ahout an hour alter, he heard the report of a pistOli he conjectured that it .was tired in the next house, and took no notice of it. The deceased .had , told hint lie should leave his house in a day or two.. A •.Geotlernan came to inquire after the lodgings. occupied by the deceas-- - ed about seven o'cloCk ; the arevant lighted.,the gentleman up stairs to show hint the apartoient ; she knocked at the deceased's chamber door, dand receiving no answer, sii.opetie(lit ; smoke issued in volumes through the dour, and she was com pelled to rett cat she gave an alarm. of fire, and water was taken up stairs ;- the bed-clothes were on fire. ;The fire being, put out, the deceased Was discovered dead nit the bed. The deceased's coat and waistcoat and the bed-clothes were burnt to tinder. On raring up the b of the deceased a pistol sell on the ground, and the re port. of th e pi sto l , was imiundiliely exriblined, for the deceased was discovered to We shut througit the head. On the floor he found a quantity of gunpowder, which . •would have destroy. , d• tiie house had it exploded. .I)lr..Rjchartl Scholefieki of N0..4,, Roge-street • Long Acre, stated, that lie had known the 44e ceased sonic tithe ; on the morning preceding hia . death be received the subjoined letter front hint : Mr. Scholefield, i-,•0 to Mr. Hughes, at Camberwell, and get possession of the property I lett there, vix. some *WO boxes, a bal-box, and two bonnet ditto, bedsteads, chairs,. &c. Dee. '27 1817." " Mr. S. please go to Mr. Thactiery, and get his Role, to purchase the things I shall want, fur 'expect soon to ne.oxlicel out. Dec. 27, " S.—This is an authority. for you to• get lay clothes from Mr. Bushes, No. 13, George-street. You telll hod the: duplicates in my gloves. " P. S. • I have written in this way that you irmy eut,l 4 lirs letter into three notes; you may cat thrm anart, and :is, per haps, you may be upon the Inquest, you can say that I have been very melancludy fur this week past ; and when you go ovvr. tho %value, call Ppm) toy siSteriit 31,. Weymuut New Kent-road, and inform he► what has happened to 1.13 C. Feet need not show the notes, but apply all toy things to your own use.': Mr. Scholefiehl in , enntintuttion.—He spent the evening of Friday last with the deceased. lc then talked of his misfortunes; he said that his ttife had.left hint and gone to lire with. anothve man ; his mother had died within a few days, Aiod the money her property sold for he hp,/ beet & lobbed oriust Out of -I)is pocket, and he felt iuctined to blow Out his,brains h a pis!ol, anti end his miseries. pt (ipii;Sott the deceased was at times distracted by hisruisfottune,s. One of the Tory thought that The ICI( er provNl a deliberate act ot. suicide. 'Fite Jury cousisteda 16 persons, 12 of whom wery ot opinion the tie= ceased was insane when he contwitted ;be act.--. 4 A verdict w.ss returned—•"fhat the deceaseet tame to his dea‘h by shooting himsdf with pistol, when in a temporary fit of insanity. HOP INTELLIGENCE, SOUTSWARK, 29T11 DEC.-011r flop ,A,Tarket is dull at present, price as iniller=-4lre have had so n me large arrivals of Foreign 11 , }ps within the last tew days, they ale from 181. to 221. per cwt.:— Kent . Bags to W. 16s. a few lots 301. Kent Podets.. all. to 301. ditto 311. Sussex Ilags 10s. to 271. ss. Sussex Puckets..27l. to 281. 10s. a few lots 291. 10s. ' . COAL MARKET, DEC. 31. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. 75# Newi!astlo .. • HI:. • ...... 395. 03. to 455. 03. 39 Stltiderland •. 2 . . •.3Ns. Od. to 41s. Oct. -- 2 Elgin Main Coal. ... 2.. .375. 03. to —s. Llst. • MARRrAGES IN NEWFOUNDLANO.—TI . )e decla ratory Act of List June se s all ( s klub relative to Marriages in Newfoundland not having been performed by persons in Holy Orders, and enacts, that froni.and after the ist day of next January, all such mart iages shall be so celebrated, other-, Wise they will be utterly void.—But this does not extend to any circumstances of peculiar and ex treme difficulty in . procuring a person in Holy Or ders to perform.them, on which the law might r un that ,account, otherwise determine on their vali, dity : and suich circumstance, with the marriage contract, beforetei s n t e o a i r t e e s t certified i\Ligi : o. 7 e oath o : o s f o t n l , t e e authorised by the G o vernor to administer oa t h s , As this. Act is provided 'not to extend to any pr e , vions marriages, nor to those of Quakers or Jews, all sochpersons may now rest clear of any•doubt of the validity of their 110iiin.-- , -57 Geo. c. 51. SUDDEN Dekrn.—On Tnosdar morning Mr s . [(aye, bi - Surveyor in the liicise department, house in Grange-walk, Bermond sey,-about 'tel in the Inorning, as toes his. Mrs. K w y e , was Ikk n in good .health and; s i iirits. Almirt fonr in the aftern oo n b e returned, h nt could nOt obtHin admittance. He conjectured K„ ye ivas abseilt ou an errand, or •a and, at. ;enth, ed the house through•a casement, When he finAlkr found his wife breath klr s e s x yo theis slri t ! p o s 0 :1 0 1 1 0 a h k b , e r e o u ou t t i; e t I - death. A ca u fi s t e f alhme; • BIIITIT. On Sunday la , t , in r: —rrat Ittis.“ 11-street, Bloomsbury, -the Lad' of fitnt y Meux; Esq. of a scan. 11 '. ': 2th Pcc i fskw,%, ijs tbe, 6 , lth year of her nge ~• . the wife of Mr. NW.tine• Oti TtieW.tv t• t 11r. I it•=e or Mrs.-Dviteley, in "Bloofus,- !miry-square, A 11:X311dt,', 11 , rd SOll. Of Lie Ut.-(201011a Baynes, Royal Attiiiery, tigett 4 years. . . . , . . 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